Ticket or card exhibitor.



G. H. DENIO.

TICKET 0R CARD EXHIBITOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11. R914.

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GERALD H. DENIO, OF EATON, COLORADO.

TICKET R CARD EXHIBITOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 17, 1914. Serial No. 832,565.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALD H. Demo, citizen of the United States, residing at Eaton, in the county of Weld and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket or Card Exhibitors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates tocard exhibitors or ticket holders and comprehends more particularly a device of this character especially adapted for attachment to the partition walls of pigeon holes, the invention being especially designed for use in connection with lock boxes as commonly constructed and employed in post-o'flices.

The invention has as its primary object to provide a device of this character which may be readily-attached to or detached from the partition walls-of ordinary postoflice boxes and so constructed as to display a. card or ticket in each box adjacent the partition wall to which the holder is attached. in such a manner that the tickets so displayed may be readily observable from the front openings in said boxes.

A further object of the invention is to provide a ticket holder of this character wherein the tickets or cards carried by the holder may be readily removed from the front openings of the post-office boxes.

The invention has as a further object to provide a ticket or card holder so constructed as to embrace an ordinary partition wall as commonly used in connection with postoiiice boxes and resiliently engage the side face of such partition wall to thereby maintain the holder in position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a holder of the above described character which may so support the cards or tickets carried by the holder within adjacent post-ofiice boxes in such a manner that the insertion or extraction of mail into or from such boxes may not interfere with such cards or tickets to effect'the displacement thereof,

the holder being provided with terminal lips at the free extremities of the wings thereof which form stop shoulders arranged to maintain such cards or tickets in position.

With these and other objects in view, my

invention will be more fully described illus-' trated in the accompan ing drawings, and then specifically pointe out in the claims which are attached to and form a part of this application.

In the accompanying drawings:Figure 1 1s a perspective view showing my improved holder applied to one partition wall of adacent post-ofiice boxes, such boxes being conventionally shown, Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the holder, Fig. 3 is a Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

vertical sectional view taken on the line :--3 of Fig. 2, and more particularly showmg the flanges formed on the side edges of the wingsof the holder which provide guide ways for the cards or tickets supported by the holder, Fig. 4 is a top plan view partly broken away showing the holder applied to apartition wall, and especially showing the disposition of the terminal lips formed at the free extremities of the wings of the holder, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a slight modification of the invention.

Corresponding and like parts are .;referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters.

My improved ticket holder is particularly designed for use in the postal service and contemplates a holder which may be readily attached to the partition walls of post-oiiice boxes, the holder being so constructed and arranged as to. display a card or ticket in each box adjacent the partition wall to which the holder is attached.

As is well known, lock boxes in post-ofices are rented generally for separate periods of three months and it is incumbent upon the government to notify the persons renting such boxes, of the expiration of the time for which they have rented the box ten days in advance of the expiration date. It therefore becomes necessary to place expiration notices in such boxes and a great deal of dificulty and inconvenience has been experienced in that such notices generally in the form of a card or ticket, become lost or displaced, bei'ng extracted from the box by the patron thereof at the time that mail is taken from the box, the ticket or card not being observed. Moreover, a card or ticket hearing a notice that a certain post-oflice box is vacant is also generally placed in each of said boxes by the postmaster. These tickets also, for one reason or another become lost or displaced. To overcome these disadvantages, I have desi ed my improved ticket or card holder an realizing the great number of boxes now being rented by the diflerent post-offices, have appreciated that a device of this character in order to be success 1o mediate its ends to provide opposed wings 'f111 must not only be simple in construction 7 and 'thus inexpensive to manufacture but must also be very simple in its operation.

Accordingly, and referring more particularly to the drawings, I provide a holder 10 which is preferably integrally formed from a strip of suitable resilient sheet metal. It is to be understood that the dimensions of the holder may be varied, as desired, and such strip of metal is bent upon itself interor clamping'members 11, which'are joined at one extremity by a connecting ortion 12, which is substantially U-shape in crosssection, the metal of the strip being first curved inwardly at the adjacentextremity of each wing, as shown at 13, and each of said inwardly curved portions merging into the reversely curved portion 14, such portion 14 being disposed between the adjacent extremities of the wings 11. The connecting portion 12 thus formed, is of suflicient length to extend across the free end edge of an ordinary partition wall, or in other words, is of a length equal to the'thickness of such wall and provides a resilient connection between said wings 11, the spring tension of thejconnecting portion 12 normally acting to bring the free extremities of said wings together as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. It will thus be seen that by this construction the holder 10 is desi ed to embrace the partition wall to which it is applied as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the inner extremity of the connecting portion 12 bearing against the adjacent end edge of the partition wall while the wings 11 are arranged one in each of the boxes-adjacent 40' said wall. Owing to the resiliency of the held tightly against the adjacent faces of the connecting portions 12, the wings 11 will be a partition wall to frictionally enga e the wall vsired.

and thus securely maintain the ho der in position, and, it will be noted that the holder may be readily applied or removed as de- The side edges of the strip forming the holder are bent inwardly toward.- each other 6 to form upon each side of the strip longitudinally extending flanges 15. It will be ,noted' that eachof said flanges are continuous and at the point where they extend contiguous with the connecting portion 12, are

bent down to lie flat against the inner face thereof, as shown-at 16.. The connecting portion 12' is thus strengthened ,at its extremities by such overlapping portions of the flanges -1.5,and.the resiliency and the spring action of the connecting portion is thereby increased. The ,flanges 15 provide -]longitudinally extending guide ways adja- -"-cent the side edges of each of-the wings 11,

such flanges terminating adjacent the free extremities of the wings as shown at 17 the flanges-of each wing being adapted receive Fig. 1 of the drawings,'the adjacent facesof said wall will form a background for each of the tickets or cards carried by the wings 11, and thus the holder may be used to support tickets or cards made of relatively thin paper, '.it being 'understood of course, that such tickets or cards are preferably of a length to overlap the imperforate portion of each of the wings 11 when placed within the holder. v

At the extremities of the flanges -17, the free extremities of the wings 11- are bent inwardly toward each other to providetrans versely extending terminal lips 20 and it will i be noted that thefree extremities of said lips are, disposed to bear .against each adjacent face of the partition wall, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, when the holder is in position thereon. Said lips, therefore, provide 'stop shoulders so arranged as to prevent the displacement of. the cards or tickets 18, should such cards or tickets be moved-longitudinallywithin the guide ways supporting each. of said cards or tickets, by

the insertion or removal of mail matter within or from the adjacent box. In other words,'were either of said tickets or cards to be forced toward the free extremities of the metal and so constructed as to resiliently engage the partition walls of post-office boxes as now 'in'use, the'holder being adapted to display tickets or cards within each box adjacent the partition wall to which the holder 'is attached in such. a'manner that each of said tickets or cards are readily readable from the front of the box. It will also be'notedthat the patron of the box in which the ticket or card is thus displayed may readily remove the ticket or card from the holder by pulling it forwardly with the fingers and in case the ticket or card displays a bill for rent of the box, may present such bill and make settlement. It willalso be noted that owing to the spring action exerted upon the wings of the holder the ticket or card supported by stances be prevented from becoming displaced.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings, I have shown a slight modification of the invention wherein the holder includes opposed wings 21 which are joined by a straight connecting portion 22. Adjacent the connecting portion 22, the wings are bent to provide transversely extending oppositely disposed ribs 23 and in order to increase the resilient gripping action of the wings of the holder when engaged with a partition wall, a spring clip 24: is employed, which clip embraces the connecting portion of the holder, as shown, and engages at its extremities against the ribs v 23, said ribs acting to maintain the clip 24;

in position. The clip 24 is preferably formed of suitable resilient sheet metal and as will be readily obvious, said clip will normally act to cause the wings 21 of the holder to firmly engage the partition wall to which the holder is attached. In this form of the invention, the holder is otherwise constructed in the same manner as above described with reference to the preferred form of the invention and a further description of such modified form will not therefore be given here.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A device of the character described formed from a strip of suitable resilient sheet metal and including spaced wings joined by, a connecting portion substantially U-shaped in cross section disposed between the inner extremities of said wings, said connecting portion acting to normally hold the outer extremities of the wings together, longitudinally extending flanges formed on the side edges of the strip, the portion of said flanges overlapping the connecting portion being bent down to rest against the inner face of said connecting portion, said flanges providing guide ways upon each of said wings, the wings being formed with suitable apertures and adapted to carry, in said guide ways, tickets each visible through the aperture of the wing by which it is carried, and terminal lips formed on the free extremities of said wings and extending 3. A ticket holder formed from a strip of suitable resilient sheet metal and including spaced clamping members joined by a connecting portion disposed between adjacent extremitles thereof, flanges formed on the confronting faces of said members, the flanges of each member being disposed to removably support a ticket, said clamping members being formed to visibly support the tickets carried by said flanges and being adapted to bear upon opposite sides of a support with said connecting portion abutting the adjacent edge of the support, and a shoulder formed on each of said members and arranged to abut the'support in the path of each of said tickets.

4:. A device of the character described including clamping members adapted to embrace a support and formed to visibly support tickets removable at the free ends of said members, and transversely extending lips carried by the said members and each adapted to abut the support in the path of one of said tickets.

5. A device of the character described including clamping members adapted to embrace a support to seat against opposite faces thereof and formed to visibly support a ticket, removable at one end of one of said members, and a lip carried by the said member and adapted to abut the support in the path of the ticket.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GERALD H. DENIO.

Witnesses Geo. W. LOWRY,

WILLIAM H. SOHEER. 

